Matthew Depero
Software Engineer at Summer Health
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Depero is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data and ad systems, currently working on YouTube video ads and recently based in San Francisco after moving from Ohio. He has shipped end-to-end ad inventory and experimental formats at Google, built petabyte-scale crawl-to-index pipelines and a multithreaded Go S3 Parquet reader/writer at Neeva, and contributed bug fixes and tests to the Go Parquet integration in Apache Arrow. Comfortable across the stack—Go, React/TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, Spark—he’s worked at startups (YC-backed Fintool), search privacy pioneer Neeva, and Google, blending product-focused execution with deep infrastructure chops. Outside product work, he’s maintained open-source rigor by improving Parquet boolean decoding and dictionary encoding correctness, showing attention to edge cases that matter at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. and M.S. Computer Science, B.S. and M.S. Computer Science at Miami UniversityHigh School Graduate with Honors, High School Graduate with Honors at Wadsworth Senior High School
Github Skills (8)
parquet10
apache-arrow10
encode10
go10
decode10
encoding10
decoding10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Go implementation within the Apache Arrow project, specifically focusing on the Parquet integration. Their work involved fixing bugs related to boolean data decoding and skipping, as well as addressing issues with dictionary encoding. The user also added comprehensive testing to ensure the correctness of the implemented solutions.
apache-arrowarrowparquet
mdepero/mce
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:301 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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